OH THE PAIN
Feb. 16th, 2004 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elbales"Like a lighthouse guides a weary sailor, the editor guides the mind of a weary writer. A stormy sea of rewrites, ugly quotations and overstuffed paragraphs can tire the most vigilant of writers leaving them slumped over a keyboard looking for shore. But as long as an editor is there to a breath fresh air into an idea and guide the hopeless into port, then there is hope."
*whimper*
(I got this from someone on my editors' mailing list. It was part of a long post featuring bad prose. This was--I kid you not--someone's ad for his or her editing services. Scary.)
*whimper*
(I got this from someone on my editors' mailing list. It was part of a long post featuring bad prose. This was--I kid you not--someone's ad for his or her editing services. Scary.)
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Date: 2004-02-16 02:40 pm (UTC)We can never be objective about our own work, can we? It's either perfect, or it thuckth. Edit the editor.
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Date: 2004-02-16 05:45 pm (UTC)